Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-11-05


An Albuquerque correspondent of the
San Francisco Chronicle says: The or
der Of General Miles for field practice and
DAHL has Grated a ripple of excitement
among the officers and men at Fort Win
gate, while the discipline Of the garrison
is OF too hight standard 10 permit in
decorous criticism Of an order emanating
from the commanding General, is is quite
evident that the officers and men do not
relish the idea OF forced marches over
hundreds OF miles of mountain and plain,
either ior tun or the purpose OF drilling in
field service in which they have had
plenty OF experience when in pursuit Of
hostile Indians, aud the result of the
sham raid 80 far have tended to bring
the order into ridicule rather than to in
crease the discipline or efficiency OF the
service.
A gigantic irrigat,ng scheme has been
undertaken in thes territory whereby
! 800 900 acres Of land are TO be rendered
susceptible Of cultivation. Water is to
be taken from tn Rio Grande, at point
about Is miles west OF Santa Fe, and
conveyed in canal, 100 miles long,
through the counties of Santa Fe, Velencia
and Sooorro. The work is undertaken by
the Albuquerque Land and Water Co,
and is to be commenced within 60 days.
The undertaking cannot be properly ter
med an experiment, but it is the largest
thing OF the kind ever attempted in this
country.
The appeal of William O'Brien, editor
of the United Ireland, against the sem
tence OF three months Imprisonment inn
posed on him by the Mitchelltown court,
was refused and the sentence oi the lower
court confirmed. On the announcement
Of the decision OF the court, the room was
in uproar, and people cluster
ed around @ Brien to prevent officers from
arresting him. A terrible struggle took
place between the police and 0'Brien's
friends ladies screamed and tainted, but
the officers finally succeeded in arresting
o. Brien Latest advices from Middleton
state the people are fearfully excited over
the arrest, and that 10000 persons are
gathered around the court house, and
rioting is feared.
When you want newspaper favors you
strike your home paper, don't you II
you want your town doomed and your
property increased in value, you expect
your own paper to do it, don't you? Yet
you kick because your home paper hasn't
as much reading matter in it AZ the city
paper, don't you? Still, on the whole,
you think your home paper mighty
good thing for the town. don't your And
you preclude the home paper from think
ing the town is good thing for it by not
giving it sufficient support, don't your
lou would not expect the home papers.
only hundreds, togiye as much
reading matter AS city paper, circulating
thousands, would you You sneak off TO
the city to get your job work, to save a
few cents, n'tyou? Do you think that
a newspaper publisher can live on wind?
Do you think he can ever digest the con-
soling fact that his newspaper is a good
thing for the town when he receives moth
ing in return ? He can't do it, can heP
Exchange.
Along with the circus on Saturday were
some shrewd gamblers who were running
the "shell game" They put up their
stand and appeared to be rather green
there were quite a number of
twenty dollar gold pieces in their pos
ession. Some cowboys bet on the game
and won, In fact it appeared 10 be just
the easiest thing in the world to win. II
was nosed about town that there
we're some green gamblers in town
with the Circus and there were quite a
number Of people who wanted to help
relieve them of cash but after dinner
things seemed TO change. The "greenies'
were accumulating twenties at a surpris-
ing rate and by supper time they were a.
bout So 900 ahead. They remarked they
never saw such town for Suckers in
their lives. There were business men and
men whose gray hairs ought to have
guaranteed experience enough TO have kept
away from any such game as that which
was being played but they seemed bound
10 help the fellows along and contributed
al the way from twenty dollars to
several times that amount TO assist the
'greenies" out Of town. After il was all
over they complained because the officers
lid not arrest the gamblers. They were
,unning enough TO provide themselves
with a gambling license before they, COM
nencel however, and consequently were
on the safe side. Perhaps the lesson
laugh will he good one after all. Exper-
ence is a costly instructor but the
lessons are not easily forgotten.
Iinel.
Eckstein, Bennett and Wellhausen have
leased their Gulch mine to some Mexi-
cans who have built an arastra. The
first ton of ore treated returned the laa..